AMBA ACE5 Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

Key Features

• Compliant with the latest ARM AMBA ACE5 Protocol Specification.
• Supports ACE5 Master and Slave.
• Supports all ACE5 data and address widths.
• Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths and response types.
• Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes.
• Separate address, data and response phases. Separate read, write and snoop channels.
• Support for burst-based transactions with only start address issued.
• Slave and Master support fine grain control of response per address or per transaction.
• Programmable wait states or delay insertion on different channels.
• Ability to inject errors during data transfer.
• Write strobe support to enable sparse data transfer on the write data bus.
• Narrow transfer support.
• Unaligned address access support.
• Ability to issue multiple outstanding transactions.
• Out of order transaction completion support.
• Protected accesses with normal/privileged, secure/non-secure and data/instruction.
• Ability to configure the width of all signals.
• Support for bus inactivity detection and timeout.
• Configurable WID signal enable support.
• Read data interleaving support with programmable interleave depth and programmable interleave size per transaction to allow fixed and variable data interleaving in a transaction
• Atomic access support with normal access and exclusive access
• Longer bursts up to 256 beats.
• Quality of Service signaling.
• Multiple region interfaces.
• User signaling support.
• Ability to break longer bursts into multiple shorter bursts
• Supports unmapped region address accesses
• AWCACHE and ARCACHE Attributes.
• Low-power Interface support
• ACE specific features
• Supports functionality to verify ACE and Cache Coherent Interconnect functionality for cache.
• Supports all ACE transaction types including Snoop, Evict, WriteEvict and
• Distributed virtual memory (DVM) transactions.
• Support for multiple outstanding ACE transactions.
• Supports all write/read responses and snoop responses.
• Support for cache model and snoop filtering
• Fine grain control of Initiating Master transaction including main memory access.
• Fine grain control of Interconnect generated snoop transaction to snooped Masters.
• Fine grain control of Interconnect generated main memory access transactions.
• Fine grain control of Snooped Master response to a snoop transaction.
• ACE5 specific features
• DVM v8.1
• CMO for Persistence
• Data Check
• Poison
• QoS Accept
• Trace signals
• User Loopback
• Wakeup signals
• Coherency connection signals
• Untranslated transactions
• Non-Secure Access Identifiers
• Programmable Timeout insertion.
• Rich set of configuration parameters to control ACE5 functionality.
• On-the-fly protocol and data checking.
• Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
• Callbacks in Master and Slave for various events.
• Status counters for various events on bus.

Benefits

• Compatible with testbench writing using SmartDV VIP's
• All UVM sequences/testcases written with VIP can be reused
• Runs in every major emulators environment
• Runs in custom FPGA platforms

Block Diagram

Deliverables

• Synthesizable transactors
• Complete regression suite containing all the AMBA ACE5 Synthesizable testcases
• Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
• Detailed documentation of all class, task and functions used in verification env
• Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes

Technical Specifications